Bullet.



L. U. BOOTH.

BULLET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1912.

Patented Jan.1 2, 1915.

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LOUIS C. BOOTH, 0F SHERIDAN, WYOMING, ASSIGNOR TO UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BULLET.

Application filed June 15, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS C. BOOTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sheridan, in the county of Sheridan and State of Wyoming, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bullets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to jacketed bullets for small arms; and it has for its object to provide a jacketed bullet constructed with a view to assuming the shape of a mushroom and inflicting a fatal wound when it contacts with tissue or bone, and this in such manner that the lead or com paratively soft core of the bullet is prevented from contacting with the lands of a rifle and impeding the progress of the bullet, and the bullet ofiers but a minimum amount of resistance to the air, is accurate and is possessed of great penetrative power.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bullet. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a modification. Fig. 4 is a transverse section online 4% of Fig. 3.

Referring by numeral to said drawings and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 thereof: 1 is the core of my novel bullet, which is of lead or other suitable material that is soft as compared with the jacket of the bullet.

2 is the rear and major portion of the jacket of the bullet which is of a metal or an alloy of metals harder than the core 1 and adapted for use in a rifle; The said jacket is cylindrical in form and its rear portion is of even diameter throughout while its forward portion is tapered as indicated by 3 to hold it on the soft core.

In addition to the core 1 and rear jacket 2 the bullet comprises a front jacket sec tion or cap 4, the rear end of which is preferably, though not necessarily, spaced from the forward end of the rear section 2, as illustrated. The rear end of the front jacket section or cap is disposed well in advance of the jacket section 2, and the exposed portion of the comparatively soft core is positioned immediately in advance of said section 2. From this it follows that neither Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 12, 1915. Serial No. 703,831. I

the exposed portion of the soft core nor the front jacket section of the bullet will contact with and be distorted by the lands of a rifle. It will also be observed that during the passage of the bullet through a rifle bore the tapered forward portion 3 of the jacket section 2 will occupy a position between the exposed portion of the soft core and the rifle lands and will effectually prevent distortion of the core by the lands, and consequently the smoothness of the tapered forward portion of the bullet will be preserved until the bullet strikes an object. It will also be manifest that the undistorted pencilpointed forward portion of the bullet will render the bullet accurate and will give it high penetrative power, and yet when the nose of the bullet contacts with tissue or bone, the bullet because of the adaptability of the soft core 1 to protrude radially, will effectually mushroom and thereby inflict a fatal wound.

From the practical advantages ascribed in the foregoing to my novel bullet it will be manifest that the bullet is especially designed for the killing of game.

Obviously if deemed necessary the front jacket section or cap 1 may be crimped or otherwise positively secured on the core 1.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the rear and major jacket section 2 is connected with the cap or front jacket section "l through the medium of strips 5 between which are formed interstices or openings 6, which may be of any suitable configuration, for the exposure of the comparatively soft core 1*. With the exceptions noted the modified bullet of Figs. 3 and 4: is similar to the bullet disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2, and is possessed of all the advantages ascribed to the latter. The point as used on the bullet may be sharp at its forward end as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or if desired, the said point may be blunt or rounded or of any other desired configuration.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A bullet comprising a core of relatively soft metal, a jacket inclosing the base of the core and extending toward the point thereof, and a tip of relatively hard metal drawn in the form of a shell and closed at one end to form the point of the bullet, the parts being swaged together, the open end of the In testimony whereof I afiix my signature tip being embedded in the core, and the in presence of two Witnesses. metal of the core Wholly filling the tip and also forming the superficial contour of the LOUIS BOOTH completed bullet between the end of the \Vitnesses:

exposed portion of the tip and the end of N. D. LANE,

the jacket. R. L. LANE.

Copies 0! this pstent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G." 

